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DESCRIPTION:This panel argues that the world wars in Asia were not interrup
 tions to global integration but zones of contact that generated new forms 
 of cross-border connectivity. While recent scholarship in military and int
 ernational history has begun to explore war-generated globalization\, this
  work has not yet been brought into sustained conversation with world hist
 ory. This panel bridges that gap\, examining how conflict produced transna
 tional exchanges of ideas\, practices\, and material across Asia—often b
 etween states simultaneously closing their borders to peacetime commerce.\
 n\nLoughlin Sweeney traces how interactions between British\, Indian\, Jap
 anese\, Ottoman\, and American officers during the First World War transfo
 rmed military culture. Encounters in Asia forced a reckoning with competin
 g models of professionalization\, as officers learned not only from allies
  but from enemies\, accelerating the shift from "gallantry" to "efficiency
 " as an organizing principle. Thomas Bottelier reexamines inter-Allied eco
 nomic aid during the Second World War\, arguing that alliances functioned 
 as incubators of new international relationships rather than mere coalitio
 ns of convenience. United States aid to China\, routed through British Ind
 ia\, reveals multilateral networks of exchange operating within wartime bl
 ocs that complicate the image of the 1940s as a nadir of globalization. Ch
 ad Denton shows how Japan's metal requisition programs were modeled on Ger
 man precedents from both world wars\, with propaganda featuring Nazi paral
 lels to justify the requisition of household objects\, shrine bells\, and 
 bronze statues across Japan's empire.\n\nTogether\, the papers demonstrate
  that wartime Asia was a site of intensive\, if coerced\, globalization\, 
 and that Asia was central—not peripheral—to these processes.
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LOCATION:Room 204 PC Desk (Seats 30)
SUMMARY:War as Vector: Military and Economic Globalization in Asia\, 1914
 –1945 - Chad B. Denton\, Loughlin Sweeney\, Thomas W. Bottelier\, Tatsuy
 a Mitsuda
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/XGTN7Y/
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